Frank Kogan

Sorry, just got up, and my brane hasn't yet I don't think -- my point about Toop's intentions versus his deep intentions is pretty unclear. What I'm getting at is that there's a distinction to be made between the intended effect of the compilation and what Toop deeply wanted, as later confessed. The minimal desired effect of a compilation is to bring songs to the attention; to get them circulating -- it's of course true that sleevenotes are often PBS-effectors whatever their content, because they're about justification, even if it's only justification by dint of suddenly being in the [named compiler's] personal canon; so the songs circulate, with with stamp-of-approval attached...

(It always vaguely irritated me that a particular bunch of ferocious UK avant-rock ideologues, gathered round Recommended Records, gave the Beach Boys -- of all 60s rock -- a total free pass towards approval, merely because Faust had written "We like the Beach Boys" on their first LP sleeve...): this was the line)